Launch of first generation Golf in motorsport

1981

Introduction:

In 1981, now based in Hanover, and renamed Volkswagen Motorsport, Volkswagen takes a new direction into rallying, with the launch of the first-generation Golf, and Sweden's Per Eklund, Frenchman Jean-Luc Thérier, and the Finn Pentti Airikkala. The final chapters in Volkswagen Racing UK's rallying story are the 'one-make' Castrol Polo Challenge, and the Polo GTI 'Super 1600' in 2001.